Is Moses going to be the Fat Guy in the Movie???

Transcript of Moses Nagamootoo’s speech at the alliance launch, March 4 2015

President-in-Waiting?????  Looks like another Ms. Cleo in the making.

HEHEHE Bhai let them Snakeoil Bhias have a Day in the sun.

President-in-Waiting Retired Brigadier-General, David Granger <==> will be waiting forever to become President.      

Words from the lips of a Neemakharam. I am sure he himself doesn't believe what he is saying. Why are you doing this to yourself Moses? Is it because of the love for power. You have lost my respect and trust.

It pains me to say this about a man by the name of Moses Nagamootoo whom I had quite a lot of respect for because I knew how he worked very hard for the PPP. Unfortunately, the PPP kicks its loyal workers to the curb. But Moses has also helped to kick other hard workers when he was close to Cheddi. 

Words from the lips of a Neemakharam. I am sure he himself doesn't believe what he is saying. Why are you doing this to yourself Moses? Is it because of the love for power. You have lost my respect and trust.

It pains me to say this about a man by the name of Moses Nagamootoo whom I had quite a lot of respect for because I knew how he worked very hard for the PPP. Unfortunately, the PPP kicks its loyal workers to the curb. But Moses was also helped to kick other hard workers when he was close to Cheddi. 

 

 

What goes around; comes around. Do fuh do nah obeah.

AYuh PPP days are numbered

 

Moses and Granger will take Guyana to the moon baby...and not that PPP make believe moon Nehru does talk bout

MOSES will be that star that destroy the ppp mafia 

Moses will alway be seen as a traitor by Indian people. Roopnarine was a traitor and now moses became a traitor to stand alongside PNC Granger.

this is not obeah fool MOSES will beat the ppp like KALI 

Always thought PPP was only about Indos...they only care about the progress of Indos...and they set the wrong example by showing their corrupt ways...with support from people like Ed Ahmad

all collie is a traitor that do not support the ppp,you is a traitor to mankind you thing AMERICA should accept you a racist amount them 

Words of wisdom from our great learned one.

skelly and warrior need they own forum to buse each other

Transcript of Granger’s speech at alliance launch (March 4, 2015)

What is the new name, is it "ONE NATION" ?? What about our brother Muslims???

Roger Khan and Ed Ahmad? Yuh looking out fu yuh bruddas....

Nice pic

LOvely indeed.

The hysterical responses by PPPites here to Moses Nagamootoo's and David Granger's statesmanlike addresses speak volumes about desperation and confusion.

David Granger hit the nail on the head by saying: "The People’s Progressive Party has dragged us to the very pit of the human development index. The record rates of arson, armed robbery, murders, suicides, road fatalities, illiteracy, unemployment, trafficking in persons and trafficking in narcotics have made our country a pariah state in this hemisphere. Happy people do not kill themselves; happy people do not kill their wives and one another. Guyana is an unhappy country."

I suggest that people go to youtube and see how the opposition campaigned in St K.  Loud and huge meetings with lots of aggression.

 

 

Our "gentlemen" Granger and Nagamootoo are "waiting" to be elected!

To be fair its the PNC which dragged Guyana there.  The problem with the PPP as that they KEPT Guyana there.

 

Both the PNC and AFC have lots to prove and if they think that victory is inevitable, I am sorry for Guyana.

 

This stuns me the most. Dem bais not even running for the UK House of Commons. Dem two chaps hey runnin fuh seats in the House of Lords

 

They're big on hitting the great points of history when their voters would like to know about their rice, schools, jobs, abolition of VAT, etc. etc. and most importantly they wanna know the PPP gon get some jail time.

 

I would have proposed a "JAIL DEM SK**T" slogan or something similarly meant to appeal to popular disgust.

 

All such elections against incumbent ruling parties are variations of "throw the bums out"

Now why would they do this if they believe that victory is assured because PPP baad?

 

 

Now I would think that Nagamootoo would be in the rice belt holding fiery meetings with the rice farmers, much as the UNITY party in St K was in strong holds of the then gov't telling them that the then gov't wanted to sell off lands to foreigners.

 

But what do I know.  Unlike the UNITY party of St K/N, the APNU AFC have been anointed by God, so can merely make statements from the comfortable air conditioned facilities in G/town, and still expect to win.  Even though the vast majority of Guyanese lack internet access and are exposed mainly to the gov't media.

 

What idiot tell this Coalition of arguable "Georgetown elites" to hold their campaign launch at Pegasus?

 

That is so beyond out of touch.

 

This launch should have been done on a weekend simultaneously in two Black and Indian-majority areas or something. I would have put Nagamootoo at Port Mourant or something with Granger at Albouystown or Tiger Bay.

 

This Coalition launch looked too removed from the lives of ordinary disenchanted Blacks and Indians.

 

I cannot recall the PPP ever ever launching their campaign from a hotel. Not for lack of funds. Just good sense.

Opposition coalition plans to end racially divisive politics, improve living standards

The AFC-APNU Prime Ministerial and Presidential Candidates  with their wives.

The opposition coalition on Wednesday officially launched its campaign for the May 11, 2015 general elections, pledging to end racially divisive politics for the first time since the 1950s and root out corruption, crime and bad governance.

Addressing a packed audience at the Pegasus Hotel, Prime Ministerial candidate Moses Nagamootoo said that after the 60 years Guyana was making another giant step towards national reconciliation, multi-ethnic and multi-party rule.

“It will be, as it has been, a bumpy road to the Promised Land. But we will not be daunted. We will not be intimidated.  We shall defeat the monster of racism. We shall overcome the campaign of fear,” he said to an audience that was made up of largely urban Afro-Guyanese and a smattering of mainly Indo-Guyanese professionals.

 Nagamootoo, who resigned from the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) after more than 40 years and joined the Alliance For Change (AFC) as its Vice Chairman, said the restoration of electoral democracy in 1992 started a hopeful process but did not bring healing.  He hopes that the coalition between the AFC and David Granger’s A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) will bring an end to the new cycle of autocratic, one-party rule, corruption and complicity in criminal enterprises.

“Since 1955, a single occurrence called “the split” had wounded our Guyanese civilization. It occasioned political and ethnic division. But today, today - after 60 years - we are taking a conscious step to put the healing balm to the scars of that division. Today, we hold out a new promise of addressing the legacy of ethnic insecurity in Guyana,” he said in his address.

 Guyana entered into period of race-based politics after the PPP split into two into the Afro-Guyanese dominated People’s National Congress (PNC), which is today the largest partner in APNU, and the largely East Indian-based PPP.

 Referring to the coalition’s merged symbols of AFC’s key and APNU’s hand, the veteran politician quipped “in our hand is the key to unity.”

apnuafc launchAttendees at the launch of the APNU-AFC coalition's election campaign at the Pegasus Hotel (photo by Kojo Mc Pherson for APNU-AFC).

In his charge, the APNU-AFC coalition’s Presidential candidate promised a “real government of national unity and democratic renewal” rather than a “bogus civic alliance” that would seek to promote greater access to education, job creation and an end to crime, corruption and cronyism.

“Our young people demand jobs, not jails, not drop-in centres (but) jobs. Our women and children demand safety at home, not safe houses (but) safe homes. Our fishermen and miners demand protection from pirates and bandits. Our paddy farmers and businessmen demand fairness and our hinterland regions demand development, not gifts, not goodies, not grants but development,” he said.

 He said the Cummingsburg Accord between APNU and AFC is “not a crass short-term office-sharing bargain” but amounted to a social contract with the Guyanese working class against a dictatorship. “We have come together because the nation is at breaking point. Guyanese have been fatigued by two decades of fickle promises, of fractious platitudes, of failed projects,” he said.

 The Retired Brigadier of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), in touting a government of national unity that would serve all Guyanese across the country, promised improved security, fight against poverty, and non-discrimination

 Granger further assured that Local Government Elections, which have not been held since 1994, would be held every three years as is prescribed by the Constitution. “We shall create an empowerment policy that regularly renews local democracy by ensuring that local government elections are held every thirty-six months as stipulated by our constitution so that our villages, towns and neighbourhoods are well governed,” he said.

 Other plans he listed include an education system that would produce “citizens of quality” who would be happy to remain in Guyana as well as create employment opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mining, agro-processing and the arts.  Under a coalition government, he said there would be an energy policy that would utilize wind, water and solar power to provide cheap, renewable energy to all Guyanese. There would be, he said, an enterprise and economic development policy that would offer a level playing field for local entrepreneurs, foreign investments and the huge Guyanese Diaspora.

 The coalition intends to hold its first public rally in less than one month now.

Opposition launches Election campaign…May 11 will be ‘Deliverance Day’

- “Our children, like little Red Riding Hood, are given a modern-day glimpse of the big bad wolves with new, brighter, but bigger teeth to laugh at our people’s pains and miseries.”

By Kiana Wilburg Hundreds assembled in at the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel yesterday,

to witness the grand launching of the election campaign for A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change, now branded APNU+AFC with the slogan, “It is time.” The room was well decorated in yellow and green balloons and garlands, representing the colours of the two political parties. The proceedings were moderated by APNU’s Dawn Hastings who paved the way for warm welcomes and supporting messages from representatives of the various party members of the APNU. Following this was a stirring session of cultural musical renditions which featured the Dubraj Tassa Group alongside the Otishka Drummers, a steel pan medley by Detroy Dey and an inspiring performance of two national songs by the Circle of Love. The haunting melodious sounds of the Yoruba Singers served to intensify the mood of unity that encapsulated the event. Hastings then introduced Prime Ministerial candidate of the APNU+AFC, Moses Nagamootoo, to deliver the ‘Unity Call.’ The politician articulated to his attentive audience that he was too humbled by the ambience created. A cool and collected Nagamootoo said that yesterday marked another giant step towards national reconciliation. As he highlighted that Guyana needs unity, he recollected that when

many saw the outcome of the talks between APNU and AFC, they responded, “It is high time.” It is time, the Prime Ministerial Candidate said, that true meaning is given to the sacrifices and struggles of “our people, and of the generations living in the colony before or remaining in Guyana after Independence.” The lawyer reminded that since 1955, a single occurrence called “the split” has wounded the Guyanese civilization. He said that it occasioned political and ethnic division. But yesterday he stressed, represented a conscious step to putting the healing balm to the scars of that division. Nagamootoo said that the restoration of electoral democracy in 1992 started a hopeful process but it did not bring healing. After a few years, he reminded that it saw a new cycle of autocratic, one-party rule. He said that the promise of 1992 faded, and then became distorted in a “frenzy

of sleaze, corruption and complicity in criminal enterprises.” The politician added that the gang of betrayers derailed Guyana’s democracy. By 2011, the AFC Vice Chairman recalled that the electorate condemned the pseudo-leaders to minority status and though they tried to duck and dodge, eventually they buckled under pressure. “These new, pre-mature elections are the final, desperate refuge of a cowardly, minority clique,” said the Prime Ministerial candidate. March 4, he said, also represents a new wave in Guyana’s democratic ambitions and will see the injection of new life into the decaying political system, and transformation of governance by ending “winner-takes-all-politics.” The APNU+AFC alliance, he stressed, will defeat the monster of racism and overcome the campaign of fear. Nagamootoo asserted that over the past 54 years of his life in the political arena, he worked tirelessly for the day when a broad coalition, a “Rainbow Coalition,” could be possible.  The APNU+AFC team, he said, has achieved not only a political union but has outlined plans and programmes for investment, growth and the development of a new Guyana. The lawyer said that going forward, new meaning must be given to the Guyanese creed “One people, One nation, One destiny.” He said, too, that from this day onward, Guyana must embody the very essence of a line by Alexandre Dumas’ in his novel, The Three Musketeers, “One for all; and all for one.” “I still remember the fleeting moments of meeting David Granger when we were both in short pants, in my native village Whim, and we crossed path on our way to the Auchlyne Scots School. Our lives would have taken us to different paths – his, to a career in teaching, in the police and in the military and mine, in journalism, politics and law. “But if as boys we shared a village and a school, tell me, why today can we not share in common our country, our Guyana home?” This statement earned Nagamootoo a standing ovation and an almost three- minute round of applause, as members of the audience shouted, “Yes Naggy, preach it!” The AFC Vice Chairman said that he has no doubt that the APNU+AFC alliance will be victorious and that his schooldays comrade, David Granger, will become Guyana’s next President. “I have every reason to feel that as President, David will be just and fair, and that he will put Guyana first, and help restore our beloved country to the place of respect and dignity in the Caribbean and the rest of the world.” Nagamootoo also stated that the APNU+AFC alliance has noted how utterly depraved the current administration has become by shamelessly misusing public funds. “Our children, like little Red Riding Hood, are given a modern-day glimpse of the big bad wolves with new, brighter, but bigger teeth to laugh at our people’s pains and miseries.” Nagamootoo then charged that May 11 is Deliverance Day from the current administration. He added, “It is time, in the lyrics of Bob Marley that we too ‘get together and feel all right.’” Unexpectedly, the Marley hit was played and the AFC Vice Chairman wasted no time in inviting his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Granger onto the platform to share in the moment of happiness and unity and even a few rhythmic moves as the entire audience sang along.

They are anointed by God, and so are merely waiting to be crowned.

 

The PPP in the mean while is spreading their mischief in the rice fields, cane fields and every where other than at Pegasus.

 

These guys are so stiff that they might need to have some nubile female to wine on them to bring them down to earth.

 

They should have gone to a place crawling with rice farmers and inaugurated this campaign.  Followed up by a large meeting in South G/town!

 

Instead frosty Pegasus with the elites politely clapping, and sipping glasses of champagne, with the only grass roots folks serving the hors d'oeuvres.

 

My God!  I think that Granger thinks this is British Guiana circa 1947 when the "unwashed" weren't allowed to vote.

 

I was stunned by this incredible display of old school British Guiana. Unbloody imaginable. These people are amazingly out of touch.

 

I'm not a big wine down fan but in this case I would have paid for some wine down gyals for this event.

 

They couldn't even find more than "smattering" of Indos. Probably all the educated Indos who look down on the PPP and their electorate. Not even I would feel comfortable in this crowd and I tend to eat my dhall and roti with a spoon like a true noveau coolie

 

Also, they couldn't even find wan Imam or Pandit to attend. Even if they had to pay dem.

 

And Moses went into this whole Christian motif. Not even the Christian Indos would find this acceptable.

 

Why not a lil mention of Shri Ram or something? Coolie up the place a lil. Even Granger dress moh coolie compare to our suited and tied Nagamootoo.

 

Symbols are powerful. And the symbol that went out today was the return of the colonial Black Elite with some Indo seasonings.

 

And all this waxin historical and racial love fest. Even had Uncle Freddie sheddin a tear for this moment in history. They're selling the goods and wares they think the ordinary folks ought to buy not what the ordinary folks are actually shopping.

As a descendant of that "school teacher African middle class", namely those who entered the middle class in the late 19th century, the spectacle of you using a spoon at such an auspicious event would have brought snickers at such "collie" behavior, with the response that you are obviously a PPP spy, such behavior being seen as all they can accomplish.  Of course seeing our reaction, those G/town Indians would blush in embarrassment and shoo you out.

 

So I know of what you speak.

 

Guyanese are a bunch big hypocrites, which is why I like Trinis and Jamaicans.  They will act all proper and stoosh, like they never wine, and yet will be the most outrageous at Trinidad carnival when they think that they aren't being seen.  Guyanese girls (Indo and Afro) win loads of wine down competitions in NYC against Trinis.

 

Panday was known as a serious "winer man", and he was also a serious "pan man."  Manning's wining skills were well known too.  The only reason why Rowley got into trouble is that an Indo girl decide to wine on him and all the "devout" Hindus were appalled, and apoplectic with rage when she told them to "haul their old racist asses".

 

Trinidad is Trinidad and Guyana is Guyana.  And our dysfunctionality makes Trinidad look so well managed.  Seriously more wining would really help.

TK has a poll which says that you are wrong, and in any case 100% of the folks in Tiger Bay will vote so they only need a few proper polished and well educated Christian Indians to win.

Indeed, IT IS TIME for the PNC and AFC to realise that they will always be in the opposition benches.

 

Cause that's how democracy works, eh jackass? A Permanent Government and a Permanent Opposition.